(editor's note: Nonduality Salon email list is an open community which allows all styles
of communication, short of personal attack, without moderation. At times
there are contributors who engage a challenging style of communication
which has been identified as double-binding.)

The lengthy quote below, which is relevant to
understanding of this perplexing 'paradoxical communication', is from:
http://www.esvce.org/esvce-97-1.html (possibly
no longer functioning)

And clearly portrays the dynamic now in
question, here in NDS: "The role of paradoxical interspecific
communication in the development of family-pack hierarchical
instabilities"

JoŽl Dehasse, DVM, Brussels, Belgium

"A hierarchical instability in a family-pack with the production of
canine competitive, irritation and territorial aggression and the dog
having access to dominance privileges has been called in France and
French-speaking Belgium a "sociopathy". This is a pathology of the
communications inside an interspecific system consisting of the family
members and the dog (hence the name family-pack). The paradoxical
communication (double bind) is emitted by the owners. The paradox
resides in the opposition of cognitive and affective communications, for
example an order to be obeyed asked with an expression of fear (like the
upper part of the body bending slightly backward). The two
communications are expressed in the verbal conditioning queries and the
affective involuntary paraverbal attitudes in the same person. The
communication is losing sense. The dog is more sensitive to analogical
communication and is not fooled by the verbal orders. The communication
is not or badly ritualised and causes anxiety. The double-bind may also
be triggered by a false belief or a misunderstanding of the
communication proposal by the dog: a lying-down-on-the-back posture to
ask for caresses is misunderstood for submission when the dog is
expressing a dominant behaviour; if still caressed after a misunderstood
demand to stop the contact (tense posture) the dog may express
irritation aggression that is once again misunderstood as unpredictable
voluntary hostile behaviour. The double bind may be emitted by the same
person or by two separate owners (split up double bind). The double bind
is causing intermittent anxiety. The tolerance for the dog having
dominant privileges may lead to partial unstable dominance. The
continual challenge of the dog's dominant privileges may lead to
aggression. The rewarding effects of aggression may lead to
hyperaggression. The treatment is global (systemic): clarification and
ritualisation of the communications - suppression of the access to
dominant privileges - use of drugs able to alleviate anxiety, reduce
aggression and facilitate learning: mood regulatory drugs like
selegiline or carbamazepine, anti-anxiety drugs like clomipramine,
anti-aggressive drugs like risperidone. "

Above, the '... suppression of the access to dominant privileges...'
refers to the inevitability of social or 'parental' control, always
elicited by this sort of behaviour. This is 'why' the 'hatred' of
'authority'.

Also, notice the specific mention of 'anxiety', which is a prime symptom
of 'double-bound' individuals.

And the entire reference is to point out, the similarities between
canine (pack) and hominid/human (tribal) behaviour. Identifying 'as the
body and the animal' is indeed appropriate to such individuals; it is
only to be understood just how the current degree of successful
compensation has been achieved, which would call for congratulations, if
not medications.